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The practices of the eventful city : the case of incubate festival

The use of events as policy tools in cities has become widely recognized. However, most studies concerning this topic do not capture the complex interrelationships that underpin the development of an eventful city. This study applies a practice approach, in order to analyze the dynamics of the eventful city practice. It places the urban event practice centrally in the analysis and focuses on the actual "sayings and doings" of the practice. The event practice of the 2015 Incubate festival in Tilburg, the Netherlands, is analyzed by means of ethnographic methods, including participant observation and interviews. Incubate illustrates how both the city and the event are performed within the practice: the event shapes the city and the city shapes the event. However, the integration of the festival into alternative spaces in the city means that it does not increase the visibility of Tilburg, and therefore fails to deliver value to its eventful city policy.

Bloemen boven het maaiveld

De Gemeente Groningen heeft in maart 2023 het Kenniscentrum NoorderRuimte van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen de opdracht gegeven voor het uitvoeren van een verkenning naar het aanbod aan werklocaties voor creatieve en innovatieve bedrijvigheid in de gemeente. Deze verkenning richt zich primair op het aanbod aan verzamelgebouwen voor kleinschalige en startende ondernemingen, zogenaamde ‘broedplaatsen’.Deze verkenning vormt een vervolg op, en actualisatie van, de in 2018 uitgevoerde QuickScan Groningen Groeit, welke is uitgevoerd door de Gemeente Groningen in samenwerking met Estheticon. Deze rapportage en de bijbehorende bijlagen dienen als input voor de gemeente bij het vormgeven en uitvoeren van haar broedplaatsenbeleid.

Generational diversity in the workforce: research incubator (session refereed)

Logistics talent incubator - innovaties in de logistiek

Innovation Hubs, student driven incubators in regional perspective

http://dx.doi.org/10.14261/postit/0AC5BB0E-3951-48E2-B00D49D5194985A7In 2015 and 2016, Saxion University of Applied Sciences organized the 2nd and 3rd edition of the Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference (RIEC).University Business Incubators (UBI) are being considered spatial clusters (Pont & van der Meer, 2012) in which entrepreneurship and innovation is stimulated based on academic knowledge. However, research has shown that most Business Incubators (BI’s) do not meet expectations. Therefore a new BI sub-type will be presented called the ‘Student Driven Business Incubator’ (SDBI), which is mainly managed and driven for and by students. This type of BI is based on a hybrid management approach between bottom up management by students and top down guidance by the parent organization.

Are incubators the new wonder tool for entrepreneurship education?

In the nineties of the last century, a lot of (ICT) incubators started in the Netherlands, many private (GorillaPark, Ant Factory, Lost Boys and Newconomy), some public, such as Twinning. Most of them stopped early this century or gone bankrupt. From 2005 university incubators like YesDelft!, Erasmus MC Incubator, UtrechtInc, Biopartner and ACE opened their doors to students which operate alongside the curriculum. Afterwards also incubators of colleges aroused, often integrated with education. Enterprize of the The Hague University of Applied Science was one of the first ones. In recent years, all kinds of private initiatives arises, called Accelerators (Rock Start and Start-Up Boot Camp). The primary purpose of an incubator is to create successful entrepreneurs, for different reasons. Much research has been done to the success rate of companies through incubators. It is assumed that the entrepreneur of a successful business should have learned a lot in this initial period. In the emerged entrepreneurial education it is therefore assumed that incubators also should be a good tool for students to quickly and efficiently learn. But is that so? As a successful serial entrepreneur, I started more than ten incubators. Most of them were a tool for regional development, cluster development or for further investments (private equity). Now he wanders if an incubator can also be a tool for teaching. He has been given the opportunity to researche this at the The Hague university for applied sciences; “What is the (added) value for entrepreneurship education of an incubator?” This paper is a preamble to that research and a call for participation.